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The life and death of ‘Chemical Nova’
You know how people pretend to win an Oscar or a Nobel Prize, right? Many years ago, I used to pretend to be the author of a fictitious but, blissfully unmindful of its fictitiousness, award-winning series of articles entitled Chemical … Continue reading
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Tagged aachaaram, Bharatiya Janata Party, Brahminism, caste apartheid, casteism, chemical reagents, class apartheid, hand washing, Hema Malini, Kent, manual scavenging, pseudoscience, running water, soap, untouchability
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Three overlooked reasons why India’s healthcare indicators remain abysmal
Scroll.in January 2, 2015 The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government announced in July that it would roll out a National Health Assurance Mission, whose aim would be to provide some free medical services to reduce “out of pocket spending on … Continue reading
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Tagged casteism, health inspectors, import duty, medical tourism, National Health Assurance Mission, Planning Commission, poverty line, Ranbaxy Labs, The Lancet, untouchability, Wockhardt
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